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Microsoft AI Genius Series

Format:
Livestream

Topic: Using AI Products

Language: English

Events in this Series:
6

AI tech and tools
Don’t miss this exclusive opportunity to advance your AI skills and power up your productivity. The Microsoft AI Genius Series provides six on-demand workshops to help you get up and running with cutting-edge AI tech and tools.

Presented by top Microsoft experts, you’ll go on a step-by-step learning journey on how to develop and deploy next generation AI apps and services.

Who should attend

Data, AI, security and machine learning devs who want to upskill in cutting-edge AI and lead innovation in your organization.

What to expect

A six-part progressive course with new AI topics released every week. Complete all six topics or just those you want to focus on.
Each kicks off with a briefing from Microsoft AI rock stars Priyanka Vergadia and Vinayak Hegde.
Follow the project for hands-on practice.
Receive a badge for your LinkedIn for each topic you complete.
Gain access to Freemium GitHub tech and tools and a developer community.

Our comprehensive series provides a step-by-step progression of AI topics that take you from whoa to AI pro. We strongly recommend completing all of them.

Upcoming Events

Click on an event below to learn more and register for individual events.

All times in - Coordinated Universal Time

Jan

Tuesday

2025

Interacting with large language models (LLM)

4:30 AM - 7:30 AM (UTC)

A hands-on introduction to the core concepts and best practices for interacting with OpenAI models in the Azure AI Foundry portal

Format:
Livestream

Topic: Using AI Products

Language: English

Details

Feb

Tuesday

2025

Explore cutting-edge LLMs, SLMs and more

4:30 AM - 7:30 AM (UTC)

Choose the right model to fit your needs and discover tools you can use to evaluate and compare models for your specific tasks

Format:
Livestream

Topic: Using AI Products

Language: English

Details

Feb

Tuesday

2025

Build a retrieval augmented generation (RAG) application using AI search

4:30 AM - 7:30 AM (UTC)

Explore different approaches to data ingestion and discover the benefits of hybrid search with semantic ranker to find both vector and keyword-based results among billions of documents

Format:
Livestream

Topic: Using AI Products

Language: English

Details

Feb

Tuesday

2025

Optimizing your AI costs

4:30 AM - 7:30 AM (UTC)

Understand how AI workloads can impact your costs, how you can control them, how you can collaborate across your organisation as a FinOps practice.

Format:
Livestream

Topic: Using AI Products

Language: English

Details

Feb

Tuesday

2025

Securing applications on Azure

4:30 AM - 7:30 AM (UTC)

Learn how to use managed identity (passwordless) authentication for Azure AI services. Find out how easily you can add user authentication using Microsoft Entra and built-in authentication